A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
News Headlines Archive
July 1, 2008
Miscellaneous
  • Death toll rises to 64 in West Bengal
  • Ghising tears down GJM flag at his residence
  • TB testing centre to come up in Kolkata
  • Left Front blames DVC for Bengal flood
  • Fresh rainfall in flood-hit West Bengal districts
  • Kolkata teen awarded for his love for planet Saturn
  • West Bengal to introduce insurance for bus passengers
  • JaiBalaji to start work on WB project
  • Globalisation cannot be stopped: Buddha
  • Man arrested for illegaly selling birds
  • Singur speed-breaker: Tata falls back on Nano plan B
  • IIT-Kharagpur loses out to IIT-Bombay
  • The Statesman
  • Hi-tech helps net two JEE imposters
  • Heavy rain to continue today
  • Fire in Kumartuli factory
  • Man shot
  • Gaelic game greets the Maidan
  • Anti-malarial drive suffers staff crunch
  • Conman
  • Teachers call hunger strike
  • Bankura Christian College publishes research journal
  • Dearer commute from 11 July
  • Absconding fraudster arrested at last
  • Municipality office ransacked in Shantipur
  • Conman held in airport
  • Gaelic game greets the Maidan
  • Dearer commute from 11 July
  • Artist with a cause
  • Municipality office ransacked in Shantipur
  • Heavy rain to continue today
  • Intuc workers demonstrate demanding statutory benefits
  • Tuskers trample man
  • Bankura college publishes research journal
  • Trinamul wants to win again!
  • The Telegraph
  • Drunks behind ladies’ bars
  • Tiger takes man in tide trap by the neck
  • Group D man hits patient’s father
  • CPM big 3 in pep talk
  • Lecture to cost teacher job
  • Peacock chicks die in temple
  • Civic salve for temple twins
  • Crusader on a bicycle
  • What's on in town
  • Power cut heat sends temperatures soaring
  • Mob on the rampage in hospital
  • Threats force couple to stay silent
  • In death, barrister beats bandh
  • Kidnap slur on ex-lover
  • Pay dispute in college
  • Cabs make a killing in fare date mix-up
  • Panel to study CU overhaul
  • 21 held for ransack at hospital
  • Short circuit sparks shop fire
  • Trio in net for loan dupe
  •  You share your birthday with...
  • Civic health scheme for poor
  • Govt balm on DGHC workers
  • Drunks go to ‘jail’ for 7 hours
  • Mom gets back boy
  • Priya sees ‘no harm’ in Somen act
  • Tea factory to start functioning
  • Four Sikkimese die in Nepal road mishap
  • NH34 expansion by 2011
  • Jalpaiguri staff strike hits services
  • SDO gets charge of civic body
  • Two held for serial thefts
  • Seminars discuss health problems
  • Jumbos on rampage again
  • In death, barrister beats bandh
  • CPM leaders in pep talk
  • Times of India
  • Dad finds baby alive 10 hrs after docs say it's dead
  • Shinjini talks, Guv wishes her speedy recovery
  • Head-On Chaos After Cops Goof Up
  • Cabbies fleece with rigged meters, charts
  • Help pours in for couple on suicide mission
  • Couple seeks permission to die
  • Callous cops, heartless city dump woman
  • Shinjini finally shows signs of recovery
  • Woman held for fraud
  • Indian Express
  • Cong, Trinamool activists held for clashes at CMCH
  • Newborn dies as hospital battles power cuts
  • ‘Parents to blame for reality show fiasco’
  • ‘Less queries, better replies’
  • Endangered Gangetic dolphin sold in market
  • Credit card con busted, 3 held
  • No bar in park, KMC tells HC
  • Sex workers to go on hungerstrike over ITPA
  • Unable to afford treatment, couple pleads for euthanasia
  • Mistaken for kidnappers, two women beaten up
  • City remembers Dr BC Roy
  • In Assembly, Trinamool to corner Left with Cong aid...
  • ...on roads, against Congress on rising prices
  • Tracks still under the weather, Puri yatra for Raths to take a hit
  • 18 all out, victory in 10 balls: Shortest match in Maidan history!
  • Asian Age
  • Woman dies at hospital, minister orders probe
  • Police to monitor flood relief
  • Buddha lauds teenage headmaster’s initiative
  • Power shortage till Oct. 2009
  • High court orders Re 1 compensation for IG
  • College girl in drunken state
  • KMC ratifies Sourav plot
  • Cancer patient dies at airport
  • Hindustan Times
  • 15 hurt in Trinamool attack
  • Saregama to foray into event management biz
  • Sports
  • I never wanted to be Houghton's assistant: Nayeem
  • Raman set to coach Bengal